“I want these poems to help people to practise empathy”

A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.

He treasures the grain of the speaking voice -- Robert Crawford

Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe

Poetry is the most elemental of the written arts.